Oracle and Adobe to put new sparkle into enterprise applications

The pair say they are opening the door for a new wave of manufacturing business applications with very visual displays, dubbed Enterprise Mashups, that can be quickly integrated with enterprise processes and data, and run on, for example, Oracle Portal. “Developers want to create applications with the impact and effectiveness of Web 2.0 while preserving their commitment to standards-based infrastructure backed by strategic vendors,” says Jeff Whatcott, senior director of product marketing at Adobe. “By integrating Adobe Flex, the Adobe framework for building enterprise Flash applications, with the latest portal and web services standards, Oracle and Adobe are bringing dramatically more engaging and usable business applications to end users, while meeting the needs of developers and IT organisations,” he adds. “The ability for ADF components to blend on the same page with Flash, HTML and other rich client elements, can result in a superior user experience for both our infrastructure software and applications customers,” explains Luke Kowalski, user interface architect at Oracle. “Working with Adobe not only allows us to add interoperability with Flash to Oracle Fusion Middleware, but it also sets the stage for a wide range of next-generation user experiences such as rich desktop integration.”